Movies Like Reform Circus
If you liked Reform Circus (1970), a movie, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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September 5 (2024)
★ 7/10During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
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The Young Lions (1958)
★ 6.7/10The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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The Best of Enemies (2019)
★ 7.4/10Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation…
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BlacKkKlansman (2018)
★ 7.5/10Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
★ 5.9/10Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In…
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Cradle Will Rock (1999)
★ 6.5/10A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
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Remember the Titans (2000)
★ 7.7/10After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome…
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Pawn Sacrifice (2015)
★ 6.7/10During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
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The Bloody Hundredth (2024)
★ 7.2/10Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.
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Sidney (2022)
★ 6.9/10This revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier—iconic actor, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Featuring interviews with Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Halle Berry, and more.
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Late Night with the Devil (2024)
★ 7.1/10A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.
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The Soviet Story (2008)
★ 7.3/10“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its…
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Frost/Nixon (2008)
★ 7.3/10For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his…
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Köln 75 (2025)
★ 7.1/10The true story of Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the 1970s Cologne music scene, who risked everything to organize the greatest solo concert in music history: Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Concert.
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Lucky Strike (2026)
★ 6.5/10A wounded American soldier fights to survive behind enemy lines during WWII's Battle of the Bulge against the Germans, relying on his instinct, spy craft and a hand-radio to evade capture and find his way back to his…
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Altman (2014)
★ 6.6/10Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution of his art form, but also on the western zeitgeist. With its use of…
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Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
★ 6.6/10The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
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Stockholm (2019)
★ 5.9/10Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” by Daniel Lang. The events grasped the world’s…
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Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2006)
★ 6.3/10From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.
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Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
★ 6.2/10Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the…